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Science Buffs Unite!

An intriguing roundup explores dinosaurs, hoodoos, tide pools, and a famous lake with a volcanic past.

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A Deinosuchus at the Natural History Museum in Utah shows his impressive chompers.

You don’t have to be a marine biologist to enjoy the intricate world of a tide pool or a paleontologist to find new dinosaur discoveries exciting. You just have to have a desire to understand the science of things—or a docent who can explain it to you. Left-brainers rejoice at some of the West’s most impressive phenomena.